“One important idea is that science is a means whereby learning is achieved, not by mere theoretical speculation on the one hand, nor by the undirected accumulation of practical facts on the other, but rather by a motivated iteration between theory and practice.” MeanImportantIdeasFactsHandsPracticeTheoryMerePracticalsMotivatedSpeculationTheoreticalAccumulationTheory And Practice Author:George E. P. Box
“For the theory-practice iteration to work, the scientist must be, as it were, mentally ambidextrous; fascinated equally on the one hand by possible meanings, theories, and tentative models to be induced from data and the practical reality of the real world, and on the other with the factual implications deducible from tentative theories, models and hypotheses.” WorldRealHandsRealityPracticeTheoryModelsScientistPracticalsDataReal WorldFascinatedHypothesisImplicationsFactualAmbidextrous Book:The collected works of George E.P. Box Source: The collected works of George E.P. Box
“Remember that all models are wrong; the practical question is how wrong do they have to be to not be useful.” RememberScienceModelsErrorsPracticalsModelling Book:Response Surfaces, Mixtures, and Ridge Analyses Source: Response Surfaces, Mixtures, and Ridge Analyses
